Increase and protect the value of your herd
Pedigree registered cattle consistently sell for higher prices than non-registered cattle.
Registering your herd delivers numerous advantages including improved cow value, more accurate genetic evaluations, more marketable progeny, and insight to manage genetic variation with greater accuracy.
If you are looking for herd performance which is predictable and uniform then pure breeding, supported with registration certificates for your female dairy cattle, will deliver this by making management and planning easier.
Pure breeding has a strong track record of continuous genetic improvement over generations. The main genetic advantage of cross-breeding is hybrid vigour which diminishes after the first generation.
Genetic variation exists in purebreds to deal with different management systems. From easy-care, British Friesians to high yielding Holsteins, all the genetics are in the one breed and everything in between, therefore there is no need to resort to cross-breeding.
Registering your herd provides access to genetic reports and genomic testing. The genetic and genomic evaluations for purebreds are proven to be more accurate, therefore bull selection is more efficient.
The CIS Complete Pedigree Package is the most economical way of registering pedigree cattle, milk recording and classifying your herd.
Janette Mathie is the Cattle Information Service head of field services
